Florence Creagh

(b. Margate, Kent, **/**/1867 – d. South Africa, **/**/1948). British-born actress. Florence Creagh, born Florence Elizabeth Denty, was a British actress who appeared on the stage in such plays as A Fast Life (1900) at the Pavilion Theatre in Edinburgh and in Daddy’s Boy at the Empire Theatre in Mossley. She married actor/writer Dick Cruikshanks in 1900 and, according to The Stage Year Book of 1911, the couple were both members of The Sketch Association. They probably came out to South Africa together to work for African Film Prodctions and she appeared in a number of their films, some directed by her husband: The Water Cure (B.F. Clinton/1916), A Border Scourge (Ralph Kimpton & Joseph Albrecht/1917), The Piccanin’s Christmas (Dick Cruikshanks & Joseph Albrecht/1917), Bond and Word (Dick Cruikshanks/1918) and Prester John (Dick Cruikshanks/1920). They probably came out to South Africa together to work for African Film Prodctions. Locally she and Cruikshanks acted in The rising generation for African Theatres in October 1924. She died in 1948, a year after her husband and at the time her surname was given as Cruikshanks. (FO)

Sources

Le Roux, André I. & Fourie, Lilla – Filmverlede: geskiedenis van die Suid-Afrikaanse speelfilm

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